Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 08:03:15 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu> To: Don Wilde <dwilde1@ibm.net> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What else goes with it (was Re: New name?) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980417075145.273A-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <35376EF9.5121678D@ibm.net>
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> Jason C. Wells wrote: > > This is a question of applications that run on the platform. There is a > > good point here. Why does Joe User want to run FreeBSD? > > > > The website has a link on the front page to "applications". Then it > > takes the user to a blurb and then the ports collection. > > > > Hmmm ports.... What is a port? ** Major snip assuming most folks are following somewhat closely On Fri, 17 Apr 1998, Don Wilde wrote: > This is so incredibly important and pertinent to -advocacy. > YES! Unfortunately, it appears to be automagically generated from the > actual ports collection. Those _useless_to_a_BSD_newbie descriptions are > part of the .DESCR file in each port. What we need to do is talk to the > -ports committer about that. Is there a method by which _all_ ports maintainers can be asked to beef up their descriptions? For example, "KDE is an integrated destkop much like CDE," presumes a knowledge of "desktop" and "CDE". This is not so bad. But _every_ KDE item has the same exact description. This is poor. Now consider this. We need not rely on the ports maintainers to provide a decent description. I am certain that if a user of a certain application, say POVRAY, was dissatisfied with the description, then that person could write a new description and mail it to the POVRAY port maintainer. I can bet that the port maintainer would not mind if someone helped out! The descriptions improve. The community gets involved. The maintainers don't get swamped with a decree from Jordan to beef up their descriptions. Sounds like a win-win situation to me. If many folks can agree with this idea, then I will make a new post calling for action. What say the community? Have fun, | Stop warning me about the latest virus. Learn more... Jason Wells | http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/CIACHoaxes.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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